Hi. Thanks for replying. In fact, it was Giacomo who started the thread and asked the original question.
My use case is a little different. I'm running a plugin which does the following. Whenever I add a game to Favourites, it invokes a series of bash scripts which adds the game to my favourites romlist. If I wait about 10 seconds and go back to the Favourites layout, the game will be among the favourites. However, if I time it badly, then my favourites romlist will not have been updated. With your script, I can now press the "R" key and it will update the layout manually, rather than having to exit the layout and re-enter it. That is great. It's just it would be fantastic if I didn't have to press "R" and that instead the plugin automatically reloads the layout once all of the bash scripts have finished.
To give you an idea, my current plugin is:
// This plugin regenerates the "Favourites.txt" romlist when a game is selected as a favourite or deselected as a favourite
fe.add_transition_callback( "favourites" );
function favourites( ttype, var, ttime )
{
switch ( ttype )
{
case Transition.ChangedTag:
system( "sudo /bin/bash /opt/retropie/configs/all/favourites.sh" ); // Starts the Favourites bash script to update the Favourites romlist whenever a game is tagged or untagged
return false;
}}
This plugin invokes the bash script that starts the update to the favourites romlist. It works in the background.
Ideally, after the bash script has finished (and it takes about 10 seconds), this plugin would reload the romlist automatically. I was thinking something like this:
// This plugin regenerates the "Favourites.txt" romlist when a game is selected as a favourite or deselected as a favourite
fe.add_transition_callback( "favourites" );
function favourites( ttype, var, ttime )
{
switch ( ttype )
{
case Transition.ChangedTag:
system( "sudo /bin/bash /opt/retropie/configs/all/favourites.sh" ); // Starts the Favourites bash script to update the Favourites romlist whenever a game is tagged or untagged
fe.signal("reload");
return false;
}}
However, I'm not sure how to get the "reload" signal to wait about 10 seconds.
Thanks.
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